Compassion and altruism: how our minds determine who is worthy of help

摘要: The causal role of affective experiences in the generation altruistic behavior has emerged as a topic great interest during past decade. If continued advancement is to be made, however, two primary issues need addressed. first involves use terms such empathy and compassion. second examination ability these emotional states tuned ratio costs benefits inherent any given opportunity for action. In this article, therefore, I attempt delineate specific term compassion capture one aspect what traditionally been termed then show how state contextually responsive trade-offs involving immediate delayed reward.